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My hands must be gripping him so tightly, but I can't stop. The guards pry my fingers off of Sean and there's a medic asking me questions that I don't answer. I can't. He speaks to someone I can't see and they confirm shots were fired. That's when I notice how wet my stomach feels. Warmth spills around me and I finally notice we're laying in a pool of blood. Sean's eyes are locked on mine and blink slowly.
I whisper his name, as terror takes hold of me. When they finally rip us apart, we're both covered in blood. It's everywhere, but I don't feel any pain. I wonder if I've been shot, and run my hands over my bodysuit, but nothing feels wrong. A medic insists that I stay still until they rip the center of the suit off of me and wash away the blood.
Then the medic next to me, the one working on Sean, says into his transmitter, "We need the bus now! Move it to the back of the Garden. Gunshot victim. Thirty year old male, six foot, a buck seventy five. Multiple bullet wounds to the side. He's bleeding out."
I shove past them and get to Sean's head before they can stop me. He looks into my eyes and smiles. It's so wrong, so peaceful, that I can't hold back the sob that bubbles up my throat. "Don't leave me. Sean! Please, please don't leave me!"
He parts his lips to speak, but I can't understand. His eyes flicker closed and the world is shattered with a scream that rips from my body.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright
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- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
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COPYRIGHT
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2014 by H.M. Ward
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H.M. WARD PRESS
First Edition: August 2014
ISBN: 9781630350376
The Arrangement 16
Chapter 1
As I pace back and forth, I wrap my arms tightly around my middle, covering the tear in my bloody bodysuit. The stupid stage costume is still clinging to me and I shiver, but not because of the temperature. It’s Sean.
Since I arrived at the hospital, I’ve been stuck in the emergency waiting room. It’s packed with people; some are press, trying to find out what happened. Hospital security tossed out anyone that shouldn’t be here. I’m covered in blood and it’s obvious I was with Sean, so they’ve let me stay, but the hospital staff won’t let me see him. Since I’m not his next of kin, they won’t tell me crap either. The only thing I know is he was rushed into surgery. I overheard the paramedic say Sean might bleed to death before he even got here. If I’d kept his ring, maybe they would take pity on me. Right now, I look like a crazy clown. My stage makeup is smeared all over my face from wiping away too many tears.
Pacing the floor, I stare into space. My mind is in overload. What I saw cannot be, but I won’t allow myself to think about that, not now. There are more pressing matters at hand, more gut wrenching horrors that I may have to face.
Death cannot visit me again, not today. I can’t lose Sean. I couldn’t bear it.